Home » January, 2006
You are currently browsing entries posted in: January, 2006
Candidates and officials in seven towns and two cities are gearing up for elections on March first… but while all eyes are on the municipal balloting, a look at the national voter’s list reveals that the elaborate redistricting exercise conducted over the last two years has produced a situation in which–once again–voters living outside Belize […]
Written on January 19, 2006 | Posted in
Social Issues |
Comments Off on Voting: some Belizeans more equal than others
It’s one of the most ambitious scholarship programmes now operating in Belize and last night the three latest graduates of the Ashcroft International Business School at Anglia Polytechnic University in the U.K. received their diplomas. Kenny Lamb, Ernesto Middleton, and Kenisha Stuart were honoured in a ceremony at the Radisson attended by Michael Ashcroft and […]
Written on January 19, 2006 | Posted in
Education |
Comments Off on Three graduate from Ashcroft Int?l Business School
Those Belizeans who live away from the coast may not have noticed, but ever since cruise ships began arriving in large numbers, the business of building and outfitting local boats has taken off. Where once craftsmen labour months to turn out a single sixteen foot wooden fisherman’s skiff, today companies employing scores of workers turn […]
Written on January 19, 2006 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
Comments Off on First ever boat show opens this weekend
When it was first introduced, the idea of a special law enforcement unit dedicated to tourism was considered somewhat radical… but today the sight of these uniformed men and women is both commonplace and welcomed by both visitors and locals. Today News Five’s Jacqueline Woods spoke to their commanding officer for an update. Jacqueline Woods, […]
Written on January 19, 2006 | Posted in
Social Issues |
Comments Off on Tourism Police Unit helps industry and public
Ever wonder where all that chicken we eat in Belize comes from? Today I found out. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Whether you like it fried, baked, or barbequed, chicken is what?s for breakfast, lunch and dinner in Belize. Local officials contend that every year Belizeans consume an average of ninety-six pounds of chicken per person. And […]
Written on January 19, 2006 | Posted in
Economy |
Comments Off on Million dollar investment improves poultry industry
Two men have been arrested and charged for the killing of Bruce Cocom on Saturday night in Belize City. Seventeen year old Alfred Tillett and twenty year old Albert Allen appeared this afternoon before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers where they were formally arraigned and remanded to prison until February fifteenth. Cocom was shot twice as he […]
Written on January 18, 2006 | Posted in
Crime |
Comments Off on Two charged with murder of Bruce Cocom
It was a killing of remarkable savagery, but instead of dangling at the end of a rope, the man who strangled his girlfriend to death will spend the next fifteen years in jail. Eliezer Dominguez was sentenced today after copping a plea in the court of Justice Michelle Arana under which he pled guilty to […]
Written on January 18, 2006 | Posted in
Trials |
Comments Off on Killer cops a plea; gets 15 years in prison…
In other court news, twenty-four year old Honduran Lauriano Ramirez was sentenced to twelve years in prison for rape and another ten for aggravated burglary. On February twenty-sixth, 2004 Ramirez attacked his ex-girlfriend in her home. After raping her, he stabbed her a number of times with an ice pick. Ramirez’s sentences will run concurrently, […]
Written on January 18, 2006 | Posted in
Trials |
Comments Off on …While rapist goes behind bars for 12
This afternoon charges were dropped against a man arrested in connection with an attack against a well-known businessman. Twenty-seven year old Giovanni Lauriano appeared today before Magistrate Sharon Fraser where two counts of attempted murder, one count of conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary and one count of aggravated burglary were all withdrawn against him. Other […]
Written on January 18, 2006 | Posted in
Crime |
Comments Off on Charges withdrawn against defendant in murder attempt
It’s Tourism Week and whether we like it or not, one of the biggest problems for the nation’s major industry is crime. The latest incident occurred on January seventh when a group of four visitors from Wisconsin were robbed while walking through Guanacaste Park near Belmopan. According to Sonia Slemrod, she, her husband, and another […]
Written on January 18, 2006 | Posted in
Crime |
Comments Off on Tourists robbed by macheteman in Guanacaste Park
His discovery in Belize by a number of alert viewers, subsequent arrest by local police, and expulsion into the arms of U.S. law enforcement authorities was amply chronicled on this station last year. Now, fugitive sexual predator Niles Scott has been convicted. He was tried in Cleveland, Ohio and found guilty on four counts of […]
Written on January 18, 2006 | Posted in
Crime |
Comments Off on Fugitive bagged in Belize convicted in Ohio
And in news just in, police report that they have found a body near mile thirty-eight on the Northern Highway. The unidentified corpse, believed to be an adult male, was discovered in a shallow grave some distance from the road. We’ll have more on this story in tomorrow’s newscast.
Written on January 18, 2006 | Posted in
Crime |
Comments Off on Cops find body off Northern Highway
This morning local environmentalists, government representatives and members of Belize’s tourism industry gathered in the old capital for the official presentation of the National Protected Areas Policy and System Plan. The document was initially launched in April 2004 and since then a task force has worked to achieve consensus on how to balance economic development […]
Written on January 18, 2006 | Posted in
Environment |
Comments Off on Policy presented for protected areas
For a while it seemed like the contest that would never end, but with a fully loaded DELL computer on the line, there was a reason for the cutthroat competition. The event was the Belize Tourism Board’s second annual Social Studies Quiz…which for the first time included the participation of students from around the country. […]
Written on January 18, 2006 | Posted in
Education |
Comments Off on Corozal student wins BTB social studies quiz
With tourism leading Belize’s economic charge and the prospect of oil riches on the minds of many Belizeans, we often lose sight of the fact that agriculture is still the nation’s most important economic activity. Today government’s main agricultural research facility held an open day and News Five’s Jacqueline Woods put on her overalls. Jacqueline […]
Written on January 18, 2006 | Posted in
Agriculture |
Comments Off on Central Farm open day shows agricultural diversity
The sentencing had been delayed twice, but tonight the fate of Clifford and Russel Hyde is now settled. The brothers will spend the next twelve years in Hattieville prison. That’s the sentence handed down today by Supreme Court Justice Troadio Gonzalez following their conviction for manslaughter. The men had originally been charged with murder, along […]
Written on January 17, 2006 | Posted in
Trials |
Comments Off on Hyde brothers sentenced to 12 years
A construction worker from Burrell Boom is cooling his heels in Hattieville prison tonight after he was charged with the indecent assault of a minor. The twelve year old girl complained to her mother that forty-eight year old Edmond Lewis squeezed her private parts while taking a baby from her arms and had previously made […]
Written on January 17, 2006 | Posted in
Crime |
Comments Off on Burrell Boom man charged with indecent assault
Police have had success in solving the recent burglary of two tourists in Belize City. Seventeen year old Sheffield Ysaguirre has been arrested for allegedly breaking into the room of a pair of U.S. visitors staying at a Barrack Road guest house late Friday night or early Saturday morning. The couple reported losing a camera, […]
Written on January 17, 2006 | Posted in
Crime |
Comments Off on Cops arrest burglar but can’t catch weed man
It’s Tourism Awareness Week and for the next few days the major players in Belize’s biggest business will be highlighting the importance of their industry for the country’s development. Today official activities were focussed in Belize City where News Five’s Karla Vernon, formerly Heusner, found herself in the middle of a fair. Karla Vernon, Reporting […]
Written on January 17, 2006 | Posted in
Uncategorized |
Comments Off on Opening of craft show marks Tourism Week
With almost six months to go before the 2006 hurricane season, most Belizeans are not thinking about catastrophes. But one group of professionals is planning ahead…although not for wind and rain. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Although we?ve felt a few tremors over the years, earthquakes are not high on Belize?s top ten list of natural disasters. […]
Written on January 17, 2006 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
Comments Off on Engineers prepare for earthquake
As Taiwan’s fourth and longest serving ambassador to Belize, Charles Tsai has presided over a deepening of ties between two countries unprecedented since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1989. At the end of January, Tsai will leave his post for reassignment to the Foreign Ministry in Taipei. This morning he spoke to News Five’s […]
Written on January 17, 2006 | Posted in
Foreign Affairs |
Comments Off on Taiwan ambassador finds lasting friendships in Belize
The neighbourhood became well-known to Belizeans in December when Lisa Garoy, her baby, and a neighbour were wounded by a spray of bullets that left the young mother paralysed. Today that same area, not far from downtown Belize City, is once again back in the news…for the same reason. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Twenty-three year old […]
Written on January 16, 2006 | Posted in
Crime |
Comments Off on Man wounded as bullets fly in alley
Sixty year old Irma Cocom of Jane Usher Boulevard said she had just told her son goodbye when twenty minutes later she received the news that he had been shot. Twenty-five year old Bruce Cocom lay dead on Central American Boulevard by a shop where he had stopped to buy a drink. According to Belize […]
Written on January 16, 2006 | Posted in
Crime |
Comments Off on City resident is year’s fourth murder victim
Police held a press conference today to report on the conclusions of forensic experts in three high profile cases. The evidence, all involving firearms, was sent to the crime lab in Chetumal and this afternoon Mexican officials formally handed over the files. The results, as explained by Belize’s chief forensic analyst, Genoveva Marin, indicated that […]
Written on January 16, 2006 | Posted in
Crime |
Comments Off on Mexicans deliver forensic conclusions in three cases
Hardly a week goes by that we don’t report on criminal charges being filed as the result of a traffic fatality. Rarely, however, do we hear that prosecutions are successful. But today, a young woman was convicted in a case over three years old. Twenty-two year old Fabiola Mendez was fined three thousand dollars, or […]
Written on January 16, 2006 | Posted in
Trials |
Comments Off on Woman pleads guilty in traffic death
